Trio of sisters’ weightloss triumph
Their close bond has helped this striking blonde trio overhaul their lives
Listening to Kirsten Jensen, Sarah Armstrong and Inga Jensen laugh, chat and finish each other’s sentences, there’s no mistaking they share the special language of sisters.
After losing their mother when they were young, the bubbly trio were brought up on a farm by their father and grandmother, where there were no limits when it came to food.
“Our grandmother comforted us with food and there were no restrictions,” Sarah, 47, tells Woman’s Day. “We ate a lot of fattening food like pies and ice-cream, and we had to clean our plates before we left the table.”
It wasn’t until years later in 1995 when a stranger asked Kirsten, 48, if she was pregnant that their Weight Watchers journey began. “It was humiliating and definitely my trigger moment,” the mother-of-two says. “I knew I had to change my lifestyle.”
Since then HR manager Kirsten, who lost 20kg in 18 months, has inspired both Sarah and Inga to follow in her footsteps. Case worker Inga, 43, has lost 15kg, while Sarah has lost 8kg, taking the trio’s total loss to 43kg.
They no longer live near each other, but they say their close bond helped them stick to the program. “I’m in Newcastle and Inga’s in Coffs Harbour but our meetings were on the same day at the same time so we’d talk afterwards,” aged-care nurse Sarah recalls. “Then Kirsten would call from Sydney checking how we went and vice-versa.”
While the sisters share a passion for fitness, they say they owe their svelte new figures to Weight Watchers teaching them how to eat well and live healthily for life. “It’s about choosing the right foods in moderation, rather than being on a diet,” Kirsten adds. “Even if we do slip up, we know what we have to do to get back on track.”